Greatest Rock Artists Of All Time (Revision Version)

[ManPerson]

I like the Shakira bump.

I really do feel like Ed Sheeran is lacking in acclaim compared to almost everyone in the group and while he has some influence he's still beaten easily by Salt-n-Pepa, Jethro Tull, New York Dolls among others. I could see him between Future and Arcade Fire, since I'd give Future acclaim, Ed popularity while I think Future's influence on trap is more significant than Ed's on folk/singer-songwriter music. Compared with Arcade Fire influence is fairly comparable, I guess, Arcade Fire take acclaim easily, Ed Sheeran takes popularity easily.

This way Ed's still ahead of Olivia at least.

[Fido]

That would be better

[Tim]

250. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
251. Phil Collins
252. Spice Girls
253. Sade
254. Ariana Grande
255. Nicki Minaj
256. Hall & Oates
257. Boyz II Men
258. Alanis Morissette
259. Luther Vandross
260. Lorde
261. War
262. Chaka Khan/Rufus
263. Eurythmics
264. Salt-N-Pepa
265. Peter Gabriel
266. The Righteous Brothers
267. Jethro Tull
268. Soundgarden
269. George Harrison
270. D'Angelo
271. Billie Eilish
272. Aaliyah
273. Electric Light Orchestra
274. Shakira
275. New York Dolls
276. Future
277. Ed Sheeran
278. Arcade Fire
279. Olivia Rodrigo
280. The (Young) Rascals
281. T.I.
282. Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps
283. The Marvelettes
284. Joe Tex
285. The Prodigy
286. Johnny Ace
287. Lloyd Price
288. Cher
289. R. Kelly
290. The Lovin' Spoonful 
291. The Spinners
292. Rick James
293. Gram Parsons/The Flying Burrito Bros
294. Barry White
295. Weezer
296. Gil Scott-Heron
297. Linda Ronstadt
298. Foo Fighters
299. The Shadows
300. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
301. Erykah Badu
302. Gary Numan/Tubeway Army
303. Toots & the Maytals
304. Television
305. Todd Rundgren (& related bands)
306. Slayer
307. Jeff Beck
308. Jimmy Cliff
309. 50 Cent
310. Link Wray (& the Wraymen)
311. The Replacements
312. Boston
313. Cheap Trick
314. Harry Nilsson
315. Jesse Belvin/Jesse & Marvin
316. Buffalo Springfield
317. Devo
318. Bruno Mars
319. Justin Bieber
320. Journey

[ManPerson]

I'll take it.

[Fido]

I don't know how I missed it when you listed him but how is Professor Longhair so low? Minimal popularity but top 100 in influence and one of the greatest pianists and overall performers ever. I see him pretty comparable with Big Jay McNeely or Jesse Belvin and they are 100 spots above him.

[ManPerson]

I could see him between The Stone Roses and Big Star.

[ManPerson]

Actually looking further up I could see him between Gorillaz and The Offspring.

[ManPerson]

Do we want to include Nina Simone.

[Tim]

Maybe for a sidebar list of artists on the very fringes of rock but who made significant contributions to the genre nonetheless?

Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers
Roy Milton & His Solid Senders/Camille Howard
Bobby "Blue" Bland
Johnny Cash (& the Tennessee Two)
Miles Davis
Herbie Hancock
Fela Kuti (& Africa '70)
Muddy Waters
Brenda Lee
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Howlin' Wolf
Gordon Lightfoot
Nina Simone
John Prine
Phil Ochs
Wanda Jackson
Carpenters
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers/Charles Brown
Lionel Hampton/Illinois Jacquet
Cecil Gant
Lucky Millinder
Johnnie Ray
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Robert Cray
Roy Hamilton
Jimmy Smith
Fred Neil
Tangerine Dream
Jean-Michel Jarre
Serge Gainsbourg
...?

Important should be that the artists' main body of work falls outside the rock genre but they recorded at least some music of note that could reasonably be considered rock.

[Tim]

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
Paul Anka
Chet Atkins
Joan Baez
George Benson
Bobby "Blue" Bland
Bread
Glen Campbell
The Captain and Tennille
Carpenters
Johnny Cash (& the Tennessee Two)
Petula Clark
Stanley Clarke
Judy Collins
Nat King Cole
Chick Corea/Return to Forever
Larry Coryell
Robert Cray
Bobby Darin
Miles Davis
John Denver
Al Di Meola
Celine Dion
The Dixie Hummingbirds
Lonnie Donegan
Champion Jack Dupree
Five Blind Boys of Mississippi
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Serge Gainsbourg
Cecil Gant
Guitar Slim
Buddy Guy
Roy Hamilton
Jan Hammer
Lionel Hampton/Illinois Jacquet
Herbie Hancock
Françoise Hardy
Emmylou Harris
Allan Holdsworth
Howlin' Wolf
The Ink Spots
Bull Moose Jackson
Wanda Jackson
Elmore James
Jean-Michel Jarre
Norah Jones
Quincy Jones
Tom Jones
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Albert King
BB King
Freddie King
Alexis Korner
Fela Kuti (& Africa '70)
The Last Poets
Brenda Lee
Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends
Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers
Gordon Lightfoot
Little Milton
Little Walter
Barry Manilow
Stick McGhee
John McLaughlin/Mahavishnu Orchestra
Pat Metheny Group
Lucky Millinder
The Mills Brothers
Roy Milton & His Solid Senders/Camille Howard
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers/Charles Brown
Fred Neil
Willie Nelson
Phil Ochs
Tony Orlando & Dawn
Jaco Pastorius
Peter, Paul and Mary
The Pilgrim Travelers
Jean-Luc Ponty
John Prine
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
Johnnie Ray
Helen Reddy
Kenny Rogers & the First Edition
Otis Rush
Arthur Russell
Sabicas
Selena
The Sensational Nightingales
Wayne Shorter
Nina Simone
Jimmy Smith
The Soul Stirrers
Otis Spann
Tangerine Dream
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
B.J. Thomas
Conway Twitty
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
Clara Ward Singers
Dionne Warwick
Dinah Washington
Grover Washington Jr.
Muddy Waters
Junior Wells
Hank Williams (& His Drifting Cowboys)
Joe Zawinul/Weather Report

If we are to narrow this sidebar rock-adjacent list to ~ 100 entries using paul's candidates and mine, unranked.

[ManPerson]

I think Louis Jordan should be number one for sure.

[Tim]

I prolly would rather keep it unranked. Difficult comparing between distinct categories such as: direct influences on earliest forms of rock music, artists whose core sound is rock-influenced but prolly better defined as something else, important artists with rock phases or rock songs here and there.